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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Feverish political and religious allegories aside, audiences will likely be drawn more to the film’s liberal bloodletting."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Interesting only for about as long as it takes to realize that Fisher has honored Weine's expressionist aesthetic but hasn't improved the original's creaky plotline."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"After a repeat viewing Cache may make or break your opinion of Michael Haneke--which is just how the French auteur probably wants it."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"The Full Monty with boobies. The perfect gift (or is it diet encouragement?) for Mother’s Day."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Nigel Cole’s feature-length sitcom Calendar Girls reimagines The Full Monty with boobies."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Zeffirelli hides behind the closet door of the film’s gaudy Carmen scenes."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Anthony Giacchino uncovers a gripping lost chapter in the history of human rights activism with The Camden 28."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Graff takes lessons learned from countless after-school specials and sets the resulting kumbaya queer fantasy to banal show tunes."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"It's steadily downhill after J. Lo picks up her man from the local crack house and licks coke off his ****, but it's worth sticking with it for Marc Anthony's performance."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film coasts on famed salsa legend Hector Lavoe's music and Anthony's impassioned performance, but it makes way to many concessions to the Ray mode of biopic storytelling."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Writer-director Joseph Greco's refusal to explain the roots of Mary's madness gives John's desperate desire to summon happier days a bewitching poignancy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The best moments are tender but few and far between; the worst aren't eye-opening but shrill."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1952) |
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"Cutting Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons definitely did Wise a few favors."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Fans of this troubling, partial work will appreciate the two hours worth of new footage amassed for this two-disc set."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"An oddly riveting chronicle of one family’s devastating demise and, less successfully, an attempt to shed light on the validity of pedophile witch-hunts."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Carindiru is slim pickings compared to HBO’s prison drama Oz."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Low-grade Argento gets the red carpet treatment from Anchor Bay. The movie isn't a keeper but the extras are certainly enticing."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Watching the online cards turn slowly (sometimes painfully so) in the film is to be reminded of how good Argento used to be when his aesthetic approach was less synthetic."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Plays out like an antidote to films like Napoleon Dynamite that seem to exist for no other reason than to make audiences feel superior to lower-class buffoons."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"A sweet film but those who don't shop at Walmart will get the short end of the stick in the features department."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film’s nameless South American pit-stop brings to mind the same ambient, allegorical landscapes of Matewan devastated by the specters of imperialism."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If they taught the film in schools, the class might be dubbed The Art of Boosting the Self and Ragging on Women Through Tired Aesthetics."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Finally, a Bond adventure one can enjoy without apology."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If the condescending Allen doesn't offer a context for Ian and Terry's behavior it's because he feels covetousness is a given for the lower-class, and so Cassandra's Dream is simply content reprimanding the brothers for not knowing their place."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The semiotic noise of this juiced-up virtual exhibit doesn’t exactly ask to be discerned."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1971) |
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"Set against a backdrop of genetic research and espionage, Argento's formal obsession with allusions to seeing and sightlessness is on fierce display."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1982) |
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"Though not necessarily a must-have for horror aficionados, The Cat People should nonetheless please Schrader and softcore porn fans alike."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1982) |
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"The late, great Ferdinando Scarfiotti's elaborate set designs imagine New Orleans as a post-feminist kingdom whose traditions are on the brink of destruction."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"While this Cat's Meow DVD edition is ripe with rich supplemental material, the film itself still fills like an afterthought to Gosford Park."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A bevy of prohibition-era Hollywood power-players and wannabes re-enact a lame game of cinematic Clue."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The final go-cart chase is halfway exciting, but nothing can prepare you for the movie's maudlin right-wing finale."
[movie review] |
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"Catch That Kid? Let’s not."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Feels as if it’s been pieced together from a dozen or so Ally McBeal parodies posing as hip-hop videos."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"A film only Earl Dittman could love, Catwoman is a purrrrrfect cure for insomnia."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Another mediocre Argentinean film to ride into town on a wave of inexplicable critical approval."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"The Cave has zero sex appeal but may turn you on to cave diving."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film suggests Jennifer Connelly's snorri-cam puke scene from Requiem for a Dream stretched out to 80 minutes."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Jacques Rivette’s spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy Celine and Julie Go Boating observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"One of the best Hollywood pop films of 2004, Cellular gets a handsome audio/video treatment on this New Line Platinum Series DVD."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Certi Bambini is all show."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"One to Another cannot be appreciated without some measure of guilt."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Changeling announces itself as an autopsy of an expansive body of lies that it never actually performs, and as such the surprisingly graceless and phony aesthetic is what lingers most."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"The features are a bit underwhelming. Nonetheless, few films of this kind boast such an edgy, luxuriant sound design. A great auditory experience."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A rare example of studio filmmaking evocatively concerned with the nature of morality."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There's a greater range of emotional complexity in a single close-up from Changing Times than there is in all of Caché."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Where's the lesson here? Don't let your kids out of the house? Don't ask for Ecstasy from strange men in the woods?"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"This misbegotten psychological portrait eagerly foregrounds Leto's excess blubber and histrionic blather, delivered like bad improv outside the Dakota building."
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Village Voice |
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(2005) |
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"It's been a banner year for Tim Burton. Pity it's also the year he made the two most unimaginative films of his career."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"To quote Julia Roberts's character in the film, Charlie Wilson's War is liberal...but not where it counts."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle is merely a preposterous, maximized manipulation of the original film’s winning formula."
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